FEAR STRIKES OUT(for solo trombone and wind ensemble) : consortium commission for a new piece for solo trombone and wind ensemble for beginning with the 2015/16 season. Multiple American university bands / wind ensembles including the University of New Mexico, University of Miami, University of Southern Mississippi, Kansas State University, Illinois State University, Northern Illinois University, Texas Tech University, Montclair State University (NJ), Anderson University, Millikin University and numerous Chicago-area high school bands / wind ensembles.

2013 Greater Hartford (CT) Arts Council grants to support a 10-day residency and the composition of a new 30:00 piece for the combined forces of the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra and (vs) theGenerous New Music Ensemble.THROUGH THE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF HELLwas premiered (2X) during the ambitious "New Music Hartford 1913 / 2013" festival : October 11 - 21, 2013

$25,000New York State Arts Council grant to support various projects & activities as Composer in Residence with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and the Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival, NYC and upstate New York

League of American Orchestras, Inc.

$25,000 grant for five (5) new orchestral works as Composer in Residencefor the great state of New Mexico. Michael Schelle was selected - by the League of American Orchestras - for the Music Alive: New Partnerships
initiative, which fosters new relationships between composers and
orchestras. Eight (8) extended trips to / residencies in New Mexico and
five (5) different orchestra-commissioned world premieres during the
period, sponsored by the League of American Orchestras, Inc. and MUSIC ALIVE / Meet the Composer, Inc.

College Band Directors National Association

2011/2013 : CONSORTIUM COMMISSION: THE END OF THE WORLD, a new work for symphonic band /
symphonic wind ensemble, 'inspired' by the 2011 Japan earthquakes and
tsunami, the Mayan calendar, and the Nostradamus doomsday prophecy for the end of the world on 21 December 2012. 35 CBDNA
university bands participating in the consortium include Michigan,
Eastman, Texas, Kansas, Indiana, Florida, Minnesota, Illinois, SUNY, New
Mexico, Michigan State, Kansas State, Butler University, Trinity, etc. . . . see: The End of the World

2013 : Commission for a new cello concertoSUN-WUKONG (2013) was premiered in November 2013, and then included on the SSO's 8-concert tour throughout China (Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, etc.) - December 2013 / January 2014. Troy Webdell, conductor, Joshua DeVries, cello.

THE EXORCISM OF THE SUGAR PLUM
FAIRY was a 2012 consortium commission from 15 American
orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, the Dayton
Philharmonic, the Alabama Symphony (Birmingham), the Tulsa Symphony, the
Albuquerque Youth Symphony and nine others. The Exorcism of the
Sugar Plum Fairy was originally intended as a creepy, spooktacular new
alternative to the standard predictable Halloween Concert
fare (Night on Bald Mountain, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Dance
Macabre, March to the Scaffold from Symphony
Fantastique, etc.), but the piece has quickly - and
quite surprisingly - graduated from Halloween status and
already been scheduled to be part of various 2013/14 and 2014/15 season
programs of youth concerts, Halloween in April concerts (cool!!), big
orchestra Christmas / Holiday concerts (yes!!) and, amazingly, for two
orchestras, as the opening piece for Classical Series Subscription concerts, sharing program space with the likes of Beethoven, Mozart, Bruckner, Stravinsky
and Bartok (Yes !!). God Bless America and Halloween.